The Plural Movement

Section Subject index: The Plurality Perspective | History | Intersection with Other Movements | Talking Points | Taking Action

With the coming together of various smaller groups within the vast umbrella of "Plurality" we have decided to declare ourselves an oppressed minority in need of rights, protections, and social change within and apart from other minority movements.

In this section we will describe the movement, the history of the movement, the talking points and the oppressing structures that need to be changed to give us equal access and rights in society.

To make it clear: we all agree that we are one body-person and have shared legal responsibility. However we are continually stripped of other freedoms (such as the freedom to assemble as overall psychology discourages networking with our peers and having peer support groups or even facilitated support groups in our community), gaslighted by the medical establishment (quite often being told that there's only one valid identity and all others are less-than and less credible and being separated from, discrediting, or abolishing our internal checks and balances, and told that liking each other is narcissistic and thus should be discouraged), stigmatized in the media and by society, having our subjective reality questioned, most studies and research are into whether or not we really exist rather than how to effectively help us, etc.

These documents are the foundations of building a community and a movement to initiate social change and demand recognition of plurals as a valid and marginalized group within society.

Worldwide prevalence rates of DID alone, only one of the many ways to experience plurality, are 1-3%. That doesn't include OSDD or P-DID and other dissociative issues that can contribute to a plural experience. It does not count those who hear voices and consider themselves to be plural even if they don't identify with past trauma or with trauma having been a central reason they are plural.

We are creating an umbrella under which to assemble, support each other, determine our shared/convergent history and select our desired narratives, and then look to society to give us equal access and accommodations, recognize our existence, and help correct and remove the social structures and stigmas that disable us.

• The Plurality Perspective of Human Systems New
  • Manifesto: You Don't Get to Define Us Anymore New
  • Why “Plural” — Ending Multiple-to-Multiple Discrimination New
• History of the Plural Movement New
  • Plural Pride Movement & Plural Pride Day New
  • The History of the term Plural New
  • The History of DID Communities
  • The History of Multiple Communities
    • The History of Otherkin Multiple or Otherkin Host Communities New
    • The History of the & tag New
  • The History of Plurality New
    • The History of Plural Oppression New
• Intersections with and Divergences from Other Rights Movements New
  • HumanRightsMovements
    • Becoming a Human Rights Activist New
  • The Hearing Voices Movement New
  • The Disability Rights Movement
    • The Psychiatric Survivor/Recovery Movement New
  • The Peer Recovery Movement New
  • The Trans Movement New
  • The Mad Pride Movement New
• Talking Points New
  • SystemsOfShame
    • Empowerment Issues New
    • Pride and Community vs. Shame and Stigma New
  • Vision: Bullet Talking Points for The Future New
    • Trauma Informed Industry New
    • Social Change New
  • Problems New
    • Professional Industry Issues New
      • Basic Flaws of Science and Psychology New
        • Study Cohort Bias New
      • Funding the Wrong Studies New
      • Unintentional Harm by Professionals New
      • Abuse by Proxy and Instructor Bias New
      • Abuse & Gaslighting by Professionals New
      • Nothing About Us Without Us New
      • Deliberate Diagnosis Misdirection Bias New
    • Denial of Freedoms
      • Denied Freedom of Assembly, Peer Support and Community New
      • Denied Freedom to Live in Community
      • Defining the Oppressors New
    • Massive Stigmatization
      • Continuous Stigmatization in the Media
    • Questioning and Attacking our Subjective Reality
      • On Name-Calling New
    • Access and Accommodations New
      • Diagnosis Gatekeeping New i.e. "Real DID" or "Are you 'professionally diagnosed'?"
  • The Oxymoron of Reductionists for Integration New
    • Dissociated Self-States Theory New
    • Spiritual Lenses: The black sheep of the dissociative experiences New
  • Maybe Not So Rare New
  • Arguing against Integration of Selves New
• Taking Action
  • Building Plural-Safe Spaces New
    • Meets & more New
    • Inclusive Support Groups New - large & small trauma processing support
    • Group Facilitation Tips New
  • Conferences and Conventions New
    • Plural Positivity World Conference New
      • PPWC 2019 New
  • Nothing About Us Without Us! - working on inclusion at the ISST-D New

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